[NTLUG:Discuss] How do you secure a LAN?

[Wayne Dahl]

On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 10:17, Bug Hunter wrote:
> 
>   The best way to do this is to run DHCP, with assignment of IP address 
> tied to a MAC address on a network card.  
> 
>   That prevents a machine from getting an address from your dhcp server 
> before you have vetted the machine.  
> 
> bug

Aside from the fact that a machine may not be online and the IP address
is not being used, how is this different from static IP's?  You still
have to go to the trouble of setting it all up for each machine, do you
not?

Wayne